Nintendo's online servers are down due to high volumes of traffic...what's going on? This is just like the time that Pokemon Bank released except nothing big has released since X at the beginning of the month...

Advance Wars is a tactical strategy title that was originally released for the Gameboy Advance during the turn of the new millennium. You start off as an unknown recruit during the first 13 missions which serve as a tutorial showing you how to play the game. After that you unlock the campaign mode and choose one of three CO's to lead your battalions. Each CO has unique abilities that can help out in a pinch. There are many different...

Balloon Fight is the first Virtual Console title to be available on the Wii U eShop and the start of Famicoms’s 30th anniversary program where Balloon Fight and other select titles get a special 30¢ price tag. This is not a port of the previous emulated Balloon Fight from the Wii’s Virtual Console as it looks more native on the TV as...

Ryu is a young boy who lost his mother when he was very young but he and his sister lived a happy life with thier grandfather until one day,when the world was mysteriously altered beyond recognition by a mysterious force, now many years later a grown Ryu must use his special powers to save the world!

The story in Breath of Fire II is decent and was one of the first video games to have a religious tone to its storyline....

Developed and published by Namco Games and originally released on the NES back in the early 1990's in North America and Europe, Dig Dug II is an excellent sequel to the widely popular Dig Dug arcade game that was released in the 1980's, though it was and still is very underrated by gamers...

Earthbound, while a huge hit in Japan and actually the second game in a series known as Mother, it didn't quite hit the same impact here in North America and especially in Europe where it was never released. Because of that Earthbound has somewhat developed a cult following here in the...

The quote above is a comment I wrote on Miiverse, which over 15 Miis enthusiastically agreed on that statement. With the improve emulation in a true aspect ratio 3:4, F-Zero visually surprises me that this was a SNES launch title.

Fire Emblem for the Gameboy Advance was the first Fire Emblem game to release outside of Japan, but there were many games in the series released on the NES and SNES that were never localized. This, however doesn't negatively affect our opinion of the series in the slightest.

The story is one of strife, war, and dragons, but the story takes a back seat to the strategic gameplay that the series is famous for delivering. The number of units...

Created by Camelot and published by Nintendo Golden Sun is a gripping story-based RPG that has many unique gameplay features such as the unique psynergy magic system and djinni summons. The game's battle system focuses on the use of magic and summoning mysterious creatures know as djinn which you can equip to a character and summon them in battle. Your skills and magic change depending on which element your equiped djinn are and you can learn more powerful magic...

Developed by Camelot Games and published by Nintendo Golden Sun: The Lost Age is essentially cartridge 2 of the original Golden Sun title as both titles were originally supposed to be one game, but Camelot Games was unable to make the massive title fit in one GBA cartridge so they split...

To say that Gradius is merely challenging is a gross understatement as the game will have you facing hordes of enemy ships as well as difficult bosses that will test your reaction and skills! The game allows you to power-up your ship in various ways such as increasing its spead, adding a shield, and equiping new weapons which you'll quickly realize that some skills and weapons while good in some...

Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland is a remake of the Famicom title Hoshi No Kirby, better known as Kirby's Adventure to westerners. Before Kirby's Adventure the title character Kirby had not been given the ability to copy enemies so at the era it was a gamechanging addition to the series. Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland adds vastly improved graphics, new minigames, and a few altered levels, but the game is mostly...

Kirby's Super Star was the final Kirby game released on the SNES console and featured over 6 unique games on one cartridge! Each of the games have their own unique gameplay, so let's find out what we think about this fun title!

Mario And Luigi: Superstar Saga started its life as Super Mario RPG 2 for the Nintendo 64 before Nintendo had decided to stop supporting its home console in favor of developing its successor the Nintendo Gamecube. The game eventually made its way onto the then popular Nintendo handheld Gameboy Advance under the new title Mario And Luigi.

The series has since had several sequels including a 3DS entry titled Mario And Luigi: Dream Team. This first entry...

Mario Kart DS is a true masterpiece there's little doubt about that, but does it live up to the standards that Mario Kart Wii, 7, and 8 have set? Well there's only one way to find out!

Mario Kart DS has some fairly tight gameplay and decent A.I. compared to earlier entries in the series, but the learning curve can be quite steep, especially since learning to snake for boosts is a must in this game, doubly so in the higher CC settings....

Metroid Fusion is a direct sequel to Super Metroid and was the last game in the long-running Metroid series to use the tried and true gameplay formula that was around since the start of the series. Metroid...

Most of the people who owned a NES growing up have probably played or heard about the NES classic Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! Which has received praise almost everywhere for its unique style of gameplay and its entertaining characters.

Punch-Out!! Isn’t as much of a fighting game as much as it is a mix of the puzzle and rhythm genres. You have to figure out the patterns in your opponent’s movements and dodge each punch a correct...